Th3Professor
April 27th, 2009, 05:21 PM
Okay, it was suggested elsewhere I split up a gob o' questions I had... here are some.
I have 5 hard drives:
1= OS (all boots and primary system files)
2,3,4= storage (raid5 & lvm)
5= external (movable storage)
OS:
I've installed unix systems before just fine but for some reason it's not working now. How do I get sysV (Solaris), BSD (like OpenBSD), and other linux systems (like Gentoo) to work and also recognize hdd 2,3,4 (not for boot, just recognize and use after booting)?
I have a "solaris boot" on a primary partition and a "solaris" (for all non-boot solaris files) on an extended partition. That should work, right?
How do I include openbsd on the computer without having to sacrifice any of the current sda1, sda2, or sda3 boot options?
Partitions:
sda1 = linux = /boot
sda2 = windows vista (with fuse, which isn't working right now, not sure why)
sda3 = solaris boot (not currently set-up)
sda5 = linux (system files only) = /
sda6 = linux (workspace) = /studio/workspace
sda7 = swap (striped priority with sda8 )
sda8 = swap (striped priority with sda7)
sda9 = solaris = not currently set-up
sda10 = linux (for secondary linux system, like gentoo) = not currently set-up
sdb1 = linux raid
sdc1 = linux raid
sdd1 = linux raid
sdi1 = vfat (fat32 default), external storage, used to read as sde1 (that's odd)
Is there a more optimal arrangement and allotment of partitions and space for use with Ubuntu Studio, OpenBSD, Solaris, Gentoo, and Windows Vista?
I'd like to see if I can include an OS on the external hard drive without losing and re-copying my current vfat/fat32 stored files. Is there a way to set-up the external hard drive to include a *nix OS without having to format the whole disk?
I have 5 hard drives:
1= OS (all boots and primary system files)
2,3,4= storage (raid5 & lvm)
5= external (movable storage)
OS:
I've installed unix systems before just fine but for some reason it's not working now. How do I get sysV (Solaris), BSD (like OpenBSD), and other linux systems (like Gentoo) to work and also recognize hdd 2,3,4 (not for boot, just recognize and use after booting)?
I have a "solaris boot" on a primary partition and a "solaris" (for all non-boot solaris files) on an extended partition. That should work, right?
How do I include openbsd on the computer without having to sacrifice any of the current sda1, sda2, or sda3 boot options?
Partitions:
sda1 = linux = /boot
sda2 = windows vista (with fuse, which isn't working right now, not sure why)
sda3 = solaris boot (not currently set-up)
sda5 = linux (system files only) = /
sda6 = linux (workspace) = /studio/workspace
sda7 = swap (striped priority with sda8 )
sda8 = swap (striped priority with sda7)
sda9 = solaris = not currently set-up
sda10 = linux (for secondary linux system, like gentoo) = not currently set-up
sdb1 = linux raid
sdc1 = linux raid
sdd1 = linux raid
sdi1 = vfat (fat32 default), external storage, used to read as sde1 (that's odd)
Is there a more optimal arrangement and allotment of partitions and space for use with Ubuntu Studio, OpenBSD, Solaris, Gentoo, and Windows Vista?
I'd like to see if I can include an OS on the external hard drive without losing and re-copying my current vfat/fat32 stored files. Is there a way to set-up the external hard drive to include a *nix OS without having to format the whole disk?